Indonesians Seek to Export a Modernized Vision of Islam

Source: The New York Times

By JOE COCHRANE

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Members of Nahdlatul Ulama in Jakarta in 2011, during a commemoration of the group’s founding in Indonesia in 1926. Its youth wing is making a global push to bring Islamic law into line with modern norms.CreditSupri/Reuters

The fighter’s bloodied shirt draws immediate attention — but so does a necklace dangling from the body: a Christian cross, worn by the independence martyr for the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.

The 2006 painting has become the symbol of a global initiative by the Indonesian youth wing of Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest mass Islamic organization in the world, that seeks to reinterpret Islamic law dating from the Middle Ages in ways that conform to 21st-century norms.

Among other things, it calls for a re-examination of elements of Islamic law that dictate relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, the structure of government and the proper aims and conduct of warfare.

Assalamu’alaikum
We as educated Muslim around the world have to reform the ancient Islamic laws such as;
1. Criminal execution; beheading, cut off hand, and slash at front of public
2. Jizyaa ( ancient tax ).
3. Women dressing code such as hijab, Burqa, Niqqab
4. etc etc.